Example sentences of "who [vb mod] not make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 2 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 3 | ‘ The only one who could not make it was a nuclear physicist ! ’ |
| 4 | Julia said drily that she thought that free Capitalism with an adequate system of social welfare for all those who could not make their own success in it was probably the fairest workable system , and then laughed as she saw David 's expression . |
| 5 | All the foreign teams are in the mountain trial and the 80 who could not make the main event are in an overflow , starting 0631 hours ! |
| 6 | Some help may come from looking at large law and consulting firms , where even the most senior partners tend to be specialists , and associates who will not make partner are outplaced fairly early on . |
| 7 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 8 | There is another group , the blind or partially sighted , who can not make satisfactory use of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue . |
| 9 | We have seen since the early 1980s appeals to the family , attacks on the ‘ moaning Minnies ’ and ‘ whingers ’ who can not make it , and counteractions to permissiveness . |
| 10 | The benefit of this form of publicity is that it could reach those in the home ( women , unemployed , disabled ) and especially those who can not make use of the coverage in newspapers ( i.e. the blind ) . |
| 11 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 12 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |